Europol is asking the public to help trace locations in photos linked to child sexual abuse.

American landlords derive more profit from renters in low-income neighborhoods, researchers Matthew Desmond and Nathan Wilmers find.

Italy is the first G7 country to sign up to China's global investment programme, despite Western concerns.

Dan Spitz, former lead guitarist for thrash metal band Anthrax, has sold more than 15 million albums, been nominated for 3 Grammy’s, created over 10 studio albums – and now he is recognized as one of the best watchmakers in the world. HODINKEE speaks with…

A look at the diversity of tones in PMR transmissions, and my home listening station. Melody detection, CTCSS, DCS, STE.

Calculating the mean of a list of numbers Consider the following problem:

You have a list of floating point numbers. No nasty tricks - these
aren’t NaN or Infinity, just normal “simple” floating point numbers.

Now: Calculate the mean (average). Can you…

Hi, I'm Darius Kazemi and I'm CS&S's Mozilla Fellow. Here are some of the things that I've been researching, building, and planning around the decentralized internet.

"Taking omega-3 fish oil supplements may increase the risk of aggressive prostate cancer by 70%," the Daily Mail reports. The story, covered widely in the media, comes from a large and well designed study that also found that high…

Full-text search is a powerful machine learning algorithm, especially relevant for web developers. This article teaches you the basics, from scratch.

But cable TV still rakes in more money.

Forty years of boxing matches — as many as 55,000 individual fights — have been painstakingly preserved in a video archive. In the age of YouTube and cloud storage, is it worth anything?

The Vessel, a sixteen-story monument nestled in the midst of the now complete “neighborhood” (read: real estate scheme) of Hudson Yards, is a structure that invites parody.

Historically, the assertion that homosexuality is contra naturam—against nature—has been made in order to justify that persecution. Whatever the nature of homophobic bigotry, science is not on your side. As we have seen, homosexuality is natural, and it’s…